Spain | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source
Spain | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00030918 1970
0.00075174 1971
0.00097258 1972
0.00737584 1973
0.09348193 1974
0.07512906 1975
0.06933197 1976
0.03640861 1977
0.03042387 1978
0.06595622 1979
0.10553926 1980
0.07474551 1981
0.06063526 1982
0.17561908 1983
0.13515918 1984
0.12302431 1985
0.03000952 1986
0.03457268 1987
0.02021931 1988
0.02050195 1989
0.01672066 1990
0.01012303 1991
0.01009339 1992
0.00951361 1993
0.00775276 1994
0.00602862 1995
0.00635738 1996
0.00398432 1997
0.00166037 1998
0.00273744 1999
0.00483506 2000
0.00613482 2001
0.00442561 2002
0.00401179 2003
0.00366544 2004
0.00327447 2005
0.00291549 2006
0.00284665 2007
0.00337447 2008
0.00165951 2009
0.00221763 2010
0.0028818 2011
0.00442661 2012
0.01034732 2013
0.00790863 2014
0.00293078 2015
0.00132927 2016
0.00163989 2017
0.00176491 2018
0.000744 2019
0.00029573 2020
0.00015149 2021
2022
Spain | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source